Loftus and Palmer were investigating the reconstructive nature of human memory. They showed a video clip of a traffic accident and asked participants in their experiment to estimate how fast the cars had been traveling. For half the participants, the question contained the phrase "smashed into," and for the remainder, the question contained the phrase "contacted.". Loftus and Palmer found that
the participants who heard the phrase "smashed into":
a. were more likely to report seeing broken glass
b. reported the details of the accident with greater accuracy
c. had greater difficulty recalling the colors of the vehicles
d. could not recall how many passengers were in each of the cars
A
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a) was proven true recently through the use of PET scans. b) is still up for debate. c) was proven false by the discovery that encoding large amounts of information into memory causes new neurons to grow in the hippocampus. d) was proven false by the discovery that the corpus callosum can regenerate following split brain surgery.
The most appropriate measure of central tendency in this distribution
Would yield a value of a. $80,000 b. $100,000 c. $71,000 d. none of these values could yield a measure of central tendency